The ‘Innovation Express’ – even less efficient, more costly, and more unjustified as crony capitalism than anyone might have thought! There are two stories at the Janesville Gazette that do their damnedest to justify federal, state, and local subsidies ($83,005) for a bus that benefits principally a few workers from multi-billion-dollar Generac, but even cheerleading…
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Federal Government, Libertarians, Politics, Presidential race 2012
Libertarian Live Blog of the 2012 State of the Union Address and GOP Response
by JOHN ADAMS •
Federal Government, Free Markets
Bain’s Not Romney’s Weakness, It’s His Strength
by JOHN ADAMS •
Predictably, opportunistic GOP rivals want to attack Mitt Romney’s career at Bain Capital as proof that he’s heartless, greedy, etc. This is unsurprising, as these GOP rivals (except Ron Paul) don’t favor free and voluntary markets, they favor particular businesses (those that contribute to their campaigns, first and foremost). They talk about being pro-business, but…
Education, Federal Government, Government Spending
No Child Left Behind: A Decade of Failure
by JOHN ADAMS •
Neal McCluskey contends — accurately — that No Child Left Behind legislation has been a failure. He makes arguments against the decade-old federal law in a brief video, embedded below. It’s a summary only, but a good summary of a bad law. (For an earlier post on NCLB, see Whitewater Has No Reason to Worry…
Federal Government, Laws/Regulations
Dallas teen missing since 2010 was deported to Colombia
by JOHN ADAMS •
Some of the same gentlemen who campaign on the need for small government are willing to support aggressive federal immigration enforcement. Their confidence in the efficiency and fairness of Immigration and Customs Enforcement is absurdly misplaced: There are still many unanswered questions about how an African-American girl who speaks no Spanish is mistaken for a…
Federal Government, Holiday
Remy: Grandma Got Indefinitely Detained (A Very TSA Christmas)
by JOHN ADAMS •
Federal Government, Government Spending, Open Government
Feds get low marks for online spending transparency
by JOHN ADAMS •
Business, Federal Government, Politics
In U.S., Fear of Big Government at Near-Record Level
by JOHN ADAMS •
Americans’ concerns about the threat of big government continue to dwarf those about big business and big labor, and by an even larger margin now than in March 2009. The 64% of Americans who say big government will be the biggest threat to the country is just one percentage point shy of the record high,…
Federal Government
US Mail Continues Spiral After Ending One-Day Delivery
by JOHN ADAMS •
Pretending that circling the drain is just a form of Olympic swimming: The headline on the press release indicated that U.S. Postal Service was taking a big step forward. “Postal Service Progresses With Operational Efficiencies,” it read. But in reality, the US Mail is going backwards. With its Monday press release, the Postal Service said…